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Historic IL home of Paul Powell, the ‘Shoebox Scandal’ politician, faces sale

Southern Illinois political mogul Paul Powell was left with $800,000 in cash in the “shoebox scandal.” Mr. Powell established a $250,000 trust that maintained his estate for more than half a century. The trust that maintains Powell’s birthplace as a museum in Vienna is running dry and the house is likely to be sold. Paul […]